The tabloid guide to fearing everyone
So what’s leading news.com.au as Dr Mumbo writes?
It’s the news.com.au guide to how to spot a paedophile.
And what are the giveaway signs?
“More likely, he is your friendly neighbour or attentive shopkeeper'”, warns journalist Candace Sutton. Or a relative. Or a schoolteacher. Or a bus driver, youth worker or preacher.
Oddly enough, I took the article to mean that you can’t pick them, that’s the point, they could be your friendly neighbour or attentive shopkeeper’” Or a relative. Or a schoolteacher. Or a bus driver, youth worker or preacher.
Perhaps being too literal is your failing.
Or maybe you could just try watching your kids and looking after them properly, rather than trying to spot paedophiles everywhere.
Just stay away from scout leaders, clergymen and middle-aged men who still live with their mothers and you should be okay.
I’m glad to hear more people saying that they are protesting against these newspapers and not buying them any more. Just this week a workmate and my favourite weekend cafe are no longer buying them.
Really bugged by the description of paedophiles as being “Bisexual”. That is hugely insulting to the LGBT community. http://psychology.ucdavis.edu/.....ation.html
“Dr. Carole Jenny and her colleagues reviewed 352 medical charts, representing all of the sexually abused children seen in the emergency room or child abuse clinic of a Denver children’s hospital during a one-year period (from July 1, 1991 to June 30, 1992). The molester was a gay or lesbian adult in fewer than 1% of cases in which an adult molester could be identified – only 2 of the 269 cases (Jenny et al., 1994).”